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Well the first harvest was mainly Locust. Then this second is basically wildflower and clover. One hive is in the city and the other two are in the woods with some farm land around. It is all pretty light in color.

I feed them lots of sugar water too that probably helps some. LOL thats a joke :-D

wow. I live in Cincinnati. It was a good year for us around here. I have 5 total hives. 2 of them are re-starts since I lost them over the winter. I did a split from my own bees. The 2 new starts are doing so well I had to add supers to them. I was shocked. So far I have taken 3 supers off and got 85 lbs of honey!!!! I am taking off the remainder of the supers this week to get them ready for winter. There is such a honey flow still till end of Sept. I will let you know about how much more honey we harvest. I do have comb honey coming off as well.

first year,7 hives to work with,5 were captured swarms,and 2 were bought packages( 1-Italian,1-Russian) we have gotten 20 gal of honey so far.Russians are by far the best producers so far followed closely by the Italians,the the first swarms caught in late march are a close third. all in all i would have to say it was a good year.by the way what does a gallon weigh.thanksbill

A gallon of honey weighs 11.8 pounds, honey's specific weight is 1.5, that be one half again the weight of water, beautiful, most wonderful days, Cindi

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Our first hive produced 26# from 1 Illinois super. It still has another full super on it which I'll pull in the next 2 weeks in anticipation of brazilian pepper, which I will leave for them over the winter months. It's supposed to be "baker's grade."

well I finally extracted, didn't take but a few supers, moved a lot around to help winter stores for new hives (I started this year) that were kinda light, my hives had a wide averaged about 60-120 pounds each, I took a total of around 20 gallons of honey for my regular customers. it could have been better but it could have been worst also, with the drought I expected the worst like last year but all hives except about 12 I started this year had good stores and now all do, hoping for a fall flow, been a few years since the hives smelt like feet (goldenrod), a few years ago they filled up almost 2 supers each but the last 2 years nothing for a fall flow, been feeding sugar syrup buy the truck loads, hope to not have to do that much this year.

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I have one hive established last year from a package and three new packages and a split from the established hive. One of the packages was a top bar hive and built up so fast they swarmed multiple times so no honey there but between all the other hives they made 115lbs of honey and the flow this year wasn't very good since the sweet clover didn't bloom at all in my area so they had to find what they could which was mostly dutch and purple clover and it was scattered also a few wild flowers the fall flow looks OK but I'm going to let them have that. I expect better results next year since sweet clover is biannual also hope to ad three more packages and split as many of the hives I already have as allowable at this rate I'm going to need another yard soon. The wife use to think I was crazy but since she took all the honey to work and it sold itself this crazy beekeeper is starting to look kind of smart. she would have sold it all if I had not stopped her so I could keep some. :-D